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“How to Solve All Your Money Problems Forever”
by Victor Boc
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VORCO PUBLISHINGPORTLAND, OREGON
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Prefaceby Victor Boc page 4
The Courage to Follow Throughby Jim Leonard page 6
What is Really Importantby Gladys Morrison page 10
Heaven on Earth is Possible
If You Begin Nowby Richard Bertram page 14
Getting Started:
The Hardest Part of Glad-Givingby Shannon Wise page 24
Don’t Believe the Hypeby Jennifer Ward page 28
Contents
Congratulations on obtaining your copy of The
Two-Prong Method Bonus Action Kit. What follows
is a collection of five articles written by five different
individuals.
NOTE: Because these articles discuss specifics
regarding the two-prong method, you should read
this material after you have finished reading the
book How to Solve All Your Money Problems Forever.
The purpose of these articles is to supply you
with a nudge in the right direction as you consider
beginning your practice of the two-prong method,
that is, to spur you into ACTION! Each article
expresses the thoughts and feelings of that
particular writer as he or she faces the prospect of
beginning the two-prong method.
Preface
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The two-prong method is extremely easy to do.
In fact, it’s fun. Nonetheless, some people find they
could use some encouragement as they face the
inital hurdle of getting underway. If that describes
you, then read this special material, soaking up the
thoughts expressed by these individuals who have
been down the path before you.
If you are someone already determined and
strongly motivated to start the two-prong method,
chomping at the bit to get going, then you may not
need the ideas offered in these pages. Even so, you
might still find the content reassuring or comforting
in some way. Surely, you will discover something of
value in what these folks have to say.
If you realize, at any time, that you are having
difficulty mustering the fortitude to begin (or
continue) the two-prong method, then these articles
may be just what you need. You could very well find
concepts in these pages that will provide you with
a welcome spark to thrust you into action.
I offer you this Bonus Action Kit regardless of
whether or not you find yourself hesitant to take
action. Read this material with whatever mindset
seems right and proper for you. And enjoy.
Regardless of what you decide to do with this
packet of information, or the two-prong method for
that matter, I sincerly wish you the very greatest of
success and happiness in the days and years to come.
Victor Boc
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Preface
The Courage toFollow Through
by Jim Leonard
The two-prong method definitely will create a
positive cash-flow into your life—if you follow
through with it! The book How to Solve All Your
Money Problems Forever gives you everything you
need to create a wealthy life, except one thing: the
courage to follow through. Only you can supply that.
Why should it take so much courage to start some-
thing simple and enjoyable to increase your income?
Because it’s different from what you’ve done
before. And it’s different from what your father did
for money. Creating change always requires courage.
Courage means: moving ahead with purposeful
action even if it activates emotions to do so.
In the study of yoga, there is a concept called
“shaktipad.” Very often in yoga, there are exercises
you follow every day in order to produce some
specific result. At the beginning of the program,
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enthusiasm might provide sufficient motivation to
get through the exercises. Then, after many days,
emotional resistance starts to set in. The great yogis
say this is the time when you get the results! This
is the period of shaktipad. Just before the energies
shift, they create a resistance to change. So it is with
every kind of project, including the two-prong
method. When you reach the point when you feel
you really cannot stand to do your affirmations, or
where you really don’t want to do your glad-giving,
that is the exact time when it is most important
that you continue, or certainly that you get started.
Here’s an exercise you can do right now to help
develop courage:
Visualize yourself using the two-prong method.
See yourself happily writing affirmations for a few
minutes every day. See yourself writing out a check
for 1 percent of your income each time you get paid,
joyfully sending it off to whomever you have decided
to support with your glad-giving. Now, see the
results. See yourself receiving more money than
you ever had before. Imagine yourself satisfying your
own desires, and also those of your family and
friends. Feel what that feels like in your body.
Now, let go of that visualization and then
visualize doing the opposite. That’s right, imagine
yourself knowing about the two-prong method, but
not taking any action—your finances staying exactly
where they are, the same bills unpaid, the same
dreams unfulfilled. See yourself just going to work
and never having enough money. Feel what that
feels like in your body.
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If you are like most people, you enjoyed the
feeling in the first visualization a whole lot more
than in the second one. Feel the difference as vividly
as possible. The strength of your preference for the
first visualization creates courage for you. Anytime
you feel resistance to starting or following though
with the two-prong method, repeat this simple two-
part exercize. It will give you the courage you need.
As I look around me at the world we inhabit
today, I see a general lack of courage everywhere I
gaze. People have always tended to take the easy
way out of things, but this attitude is certainly much
more prevalent today than at any point in the past.
When I refer to courage, I am not talking about
some grandiose scheme whereby you charge into a
burning schoolhouse to rescue the traumatized
children (and the school teacher too). The simplest
most mundane activities of daily life can also
require a dose of courage, sometimes much more
than we realize.
And so it is with the two-prong method. Even
though the process is pleasurable, even though it
leads to immense reward, it can still be a process
requiring courage. Especially required is the
courage to start, to begin that very first affirmations
session, to write out that very first donation check
for your glad-giving. Courage: do not underestimate
its role in a successful practice of the two-prong
method.
By the same token, if you are someone who has
already begun his or her practice of this method,
someone who, even now, is continuing to perform
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the duties required to do this method, then I say
you should give yourself a healthy pat on the back.
Congratulate yourself, not just for your diligence
in the face of life’s challenges, although that is
surely deserving of some congratulations. No,
congratulate yourself for your courage, for demon-
strating a measure of courage, perhaps even more
than you realize.
Courage is master force, something we need a
whole lot more of in our world today. I think we
should acknowledge and congratulate acts of
courage wherever we find them. Thus, I now
congratulate you. I congratulate you who are about
to embark on this new and exciting adventure
called the two-prong method. Congratulations on
your impressive courage.
Jim Leonard is the author of “Vivation—The
Science of Enjoying All of Your Life,” “Your Fondest
Dream,” and his most recent book, “The Skill of
Happiness.” He is also the creator of Vivation® and
the founder of Vivation International, Inc.
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What is ReallyImportant
by Gladys Morrison
I’m going to be honest with you. I won’t mince
words. The actual act of performing the two-prong
method is extremely easy to do. The writing of
affirmations and donating of funds to charities,
that’s duck soup, simple and easy as can be. Like
Victor says, it’s fun even.
But yet I say that doing it is brutally hard. Why?
Because getting started is hard. It is brutal. Be ready
for this difficulty in starting.
I am not one of those people who doubted the
effectiveness of this method. Victor talks about those
people who don’t believe that the process will work,
how hard it is to overcome that disbelief and do it
anyway.
That was not me. I did believe, logically, that the
two-prong method would work. In fact, I knew it
would. It just made perfect sense to me. Based on
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everything I had ever read and studied, I knew that
we create our own reality and that we have only to
harness that eternal power to change our world...
blah, blah, blah.
That part was easy for me. I had no doubt what-
soever that the method had the power to work to
produce massive results, that is, a tremendous flow
of money into my life. Zero doubt in my mind.
I still had trouble starting. I can honestly say,
aside from the birth of my second son, it was the
hardest thing I ever had to do in my entire life.
For days, weeks, months, I would make excuses
and put off starting. I knew the prize that awaited
me if only I could ever break through and get
started, yet I found it literally impossible to begin.
Every conceivable excuse and rationalization was
employed by me.
I started to get annoyed at my lack of initiative,
my lack of ability to even get started. I tried every
trick in the book to attempt to force myself into
doing it. To no avail.
Occasionally, I would get started, sort of, only to
stop two days later. One time, I made a solemn vow
with myself to do it. That lasted three full hours!
Nothing I tried produced the result of actually
starting in earnest and keeping going.
Except one thing.
I will tell you what finally did the trick for me,
what finally got my ass in gear and got me doing
the two-prong method for real. This idea may work
for you or it may not, but it sure as heck did work
for me.
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One day, I took a long hard look at myself in the
mirror, and I asked myself what truly mattered to
me in the world. The answer: my children. Then I
asked myself in all seriousness: Then, Gladys, what
the hell are you doing?
Gladys, here you have a fantastic technique, in
fact, the most powerful technique in the world to
turn your life around and provide for your children,
to impact and change their lives too for the better,
and what are you doing about it? Nothing. The
answer to that question punched me in the gut.
At the time, we were having severe money
problems. My husband had been laid off, and our
savings, meager though they were, were fast being
depleted. We had just cut back on our cable service,
and the kids did not smile upon that decision
favorably, let me tell you. We were looking at
cheaper sharing plans for our phones, and we were
running around the house all the time shutting off
lights and looking for ways to save cost on utilities.
Not a pretty picture.
And here I was: I knew the two-prong method
would work to totally change the situation for myself
and my children and my husband, yet I was for some
lame reason stuck in a rut of inaction. How ashamed
I should be! And I was.
I stormed out of that bathroom with renewed
hope, and I proceeded to immediately charge into
my program of affirmations and glad-giving. The
rest is history.
Today, things are sure different than they were
then. My husband makes a great salary, I daresay.
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And we live about as comfortably as any family
could. We just moved into a new 11,000-squre-foot
home outside town with better schools and better
everything. Life is good.
I won’t lie to you. The two-prong method is
totally easy to do. Yet it is phenomenally hard to
start. At least it was for me. Both things are true.
The thing that made the difference for me, that
got me unstuck, was recognizing my love and com-
mittment to my family. And that I should be doing
what I know is best for them. If you have a problem
starting, maybe this advice will work for you.
I will say this without reservation. Whatever you
need to do to get started doing the two-prong
method, make sure you do it. Don’t let anything
get in your way. Least of all yourself.
Gladys Morrison is a proud stay-at-home mother,
who lives with her husband and three children near
Dallas, Texas. Her family just recently acquired a
new collie named Buff.
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I was born on February 4th, 1916. I was a very
fortunate child in that my parents were totally in
love with one another. I never heard my father raise
his voice to anybody. He was a wonderfully caring
man. I don’t think he ever did a mean thing in his
entire life. And my parents were very much
oriented toward their children.
My father loved to sail. We had a cruising boat
when I was growing up. One of the biggest thrills of
my life was also one of the first things I can
remember. I’d say I was three or four years old. I
recall it clearly, the first morning I ever woke up on
a boat. My parents took my sister and me sailing
from time to time, but this was the first time we
had ever spent the night on a boat. I can’t tell you
how much this experience meant to me. I will never
forget it.
Heaven on Earthis Possible,
if You Act Nowby Richard Bertram
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I remember opening my eyes. Overhead was the
reflection of the sunshine shining through the port
of the boat. I could see this beautiful light dancing
around on the ceiling. At that point I realized I was
on a boat. I was suffused with joy. That moment
meant more to me than anyone could possibly
imagine. I was so happy right then; I know now that
I experienced a really deep state of Oneness with
Nature.
Waking up on a boat turned out to be an
experience I would have many, many times in my
life. In fact, it changed my life. I always wanted to
do great things. But, as with all of life or anything
great you want to do, you must first begin. You must
start somewhere.
I grew up to be somewhat of a hero-figure in the
area of boat design. When I was a young man, while
sailing on the 12-Meter Vim, I spotted a prototype
invented by Ray Hunt. At that moment in time, I
knew I had to do something about that. In other
words, if anything good were going to happen for
me, I needed to take action!
I subsequently commissioned him to put
together a 31-footer for me based on the same
principle—the deep-vee hull. The huge success and
publicity of that boat, changed boating history
forever, and took my life along with it. The deep-
vee design was, at least in part, responsible for my
meteoric rise in fame and wealth.
In the years that followed, business could not
have been better. I was making lots of money, selling
lots of boats and loving every minute of it. Richard
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Bertram & Company Yachts went on to become the
world’s largest yacht brokerage, revolutionizing the
industry in the process. By the time the late sixties
arrived, I had amassed more wealth and attained
more notoriety than I ever imagined for myself. Life
Magazine did a piece on me, in which they noted
that, at that time, I was one of the world’s richest
men. I had amassed many millions of dollars, so for
sure, I was toward the top of that list.
Of course, none of this would have been possible
had I not had the insight and willingness to act. To
this day, I thank all that is holy that I did take action.
Taking action, beginning with what you know you
should do, is what it’s all about. After I took that
initial first step of action, everything else began to
just fall in place.
I’ll give you an example of how things fell into
place for me in those years. In 1958, Camel
cigarettes came to me and asked me to allow them
to use my picture in their marketing campaign. R.J.
Reynolds wanted to me to be the Camel cigarette
man in their advertising. Of course, I agreed.
Suddenly, there was a picture of my face, a huge
picture, hanging above Times Square in New York
City. It hung there for a long, long time. They also
ran another ad with a picture of me at the helm of
one of our boats during a transatlantic race, of course
with a cigarette in my mouth. It was a full-page ad,
run coast to coast.
And that’s not all. They also ran a one-minute
commercial on national television. Two years later
when my boat was succeeded with the deep-vee
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design breakthrough, that’s the boat they featured
in the TV commercial. The picture they used was a
picture of this 31-footer, with its radical new hull
design and full-length strakes that kept the boat
dry. During the shoot, the boat was held up on a
sling and the picture was taken looking up. All
through the commercial, we talked about the
qualities for soft riding and what the strakes did,
and so forth. The whole commercial was spent
totally talking about the boat. This proved to be
invaluable publicity for us. That TV commercial was
in a lot of popular TV shows. Together with pictures
of the boat in print, in newspapers and magazines
across the country, we received tremendous
promotional value absolutely free, courtesy of R.J.
Reynolds Company. They spent a lot of money on
their advertising. From the standpoint of our
brokerage business, it was fantastic. They used
those advertisements a long time.
By the way, I did actually smoke Camels at that
time. I had just quit smoking when I was ap-
proached with this proposition. I felt I had to protect
my integrity by smoking again. I was a Chesterfield
smoker, but the two brands were about the same.
They sent me a carton a week. And I smoked them.
It all sounds great doesn’t it? The fame. The
money. The glamour. But let me tell you, all was
not well in paradise.
The most obvious indication that something was
amiss was my drinking problem. My problem with
alcohol began as early as high school. I think it
started as some kind of high school initiation. I got
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drunk. From that point on, I drank a lot. I didn’t
always get drunk when I drank. It wasn’t like that.
But sooner or later, I would go off the deep end and
get really sloshed. I was a periodic drunk. I’d do
crazy things. I would try to stop. And then drink
again. Try to stop again. Drink again. Like that.
Luckily, I was in real good physical shape at the
time. Doing so much off-shore sailing, I had a lot
going for me. The motion of the sea and the yoga of
the sea would keep me in shape and working hard.
That allowed me to stay up all night and I didn’t
have to work in the morning or anything like that.
During those years, I had many symbols of
success: a world championship in sailing, a highly-
successful business, a long list of admirers, tons of
money and so forth. Yet I still felt unfulfilled. I had
winning boats in practically every major ocean race
in the world. I’d won three straight Bermuda races
and the world championship in off-shore power boat
racing. I had nice children, a beautiful home and a
company that was the acknowledged leader in the
yacht brokerage business. I could lay claim to all
these things that people would envy, all these
external symbols of success. But I was not fulfilled.
And I knew it. Something was missing.
My life lacked meaning. In retrospect, I can see
that honesty was not a part of my life or my
relationships. I was honest as far as business was
concerned, but in the rest of my life, I was conning
myself.
I was going off racing a lot of places—and playing
around with a lot with women as well. The basic
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problem was that I had no idea what an honest
relationship was. The bottom line is that my
behavior had become unacceptable. Finally, my wife
kicked me out.
At the time, I thought it was the worst thing
that ever happened to me. Now I see it as the best
thing that could have happened at that point.
Being kicked out was a major shock to me. We
had a beautiful house in Coconut Grove. In fact, we
had the nicest house of anybody around. The house
was right on the bay, looking over toward Key
Biscayne, with the canal alongside. We had a lot of
mutual friends. And I loved my kids. Yes, it was a
huge shock to me when she threw me out. I couldn’t
believe that it really happened.
I was resentful that my wife could kick out such
a good guy, me. It hurt. I was terribly hurt for a long
time. On top of that, I had no place to go. I didn’t
have any place to go in the sense of my life. Little
did I realize that this event would turn out to be
the single most important turning point in my life.
Yes, it was a shock. But shock is good. Really.
Especially if it springs you into action. Because
action is the ultimate savior.
The day was Super Bowl Sunday. I found myself
with ten kids, all the trimmings of a perfect life,
and I was miserable. My wife had just kicked me
out, and I felt emotionally lost. I had heard about
Alcoholics Anonymous before. I thought it was a
religious program. I couldn’t go, I figured, because
it plainly wasn’t for me. I was an atheist at that
time. But somehow, some way, out of the ashes in
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which I found myself, I managed to find the strength
to pick myself up and go to AA. In other words, I
took action. That was my personal turning point.
AA had a tremendous effect on every aspect of my
life from that point on. Now, I see that day as the
beginning of my spiritual path.
Prior to that time, I lacked any sense of
spirituality. Very soon after going to my first meeting,
I realized that I really did want the program to work
for me. So I listened to people. I wondered, How
could I believe in God? People replied to me by
saying, Are you willing to believe? I said yes. They
recommended that I say "please" in the morning and
"thank you" at night, all those AA things. I did all
those things, and the transformation happened. It
was so obvious when things improved for me.
Good things started happening. I couldn’t stop
them from happening if I wanted to. This change,
again, was a direct result of my willingness, not to
just sit on my duff, but to actually take action!
The sixth step asks that we become ready to have
God remove defects of character. So, I was focusing
on my defects of character and I got into a deep
depression. Due to this depression, I was unable to
go ahead on the steps. I was stuck. I wanted to do
the sixth step, and I couldn’t.
It was at that point that I discovered the power
of affirmations. I used affirmations, and applied
mine to the sixth step. I made affirmations that
turned my character defects around into positive
attributes. It worked! It got me unstuck. Truly,
when the student is ready, the teacher appears.
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Affirmations really work. Based on my
experience, it seems like the sixth step is the
appropriate place to use affirmations. They work to
change the negative programs in our mind to
positive programs. Eventually, we want to transcend
these programs altogether, but first, at the
beginning stage, affirmations definitely do work.
They worked well for me. For quite a long period of
time, I kept changing my affirmations. I used them
religiously. I had a long tape of affirmations and I
would play them every day. I used affirmations for
many years, and I still do.
I want to emphasize the importance of actually
getting started. Had I just daydreamed about how
great affirmations could be, I would have never
actually experienced their true power. The key to
everything is taking action.
I think back to my Alcoholics Anonymous days
when I lived in Miami. We had a group, called the
Plymouth Group, that I liked very much. We noticed
that the people who were having slips and weren’t
getting sober were the people who had not taken
the initiative to actually DO the steps. Right then
and there, we realized the critical nature of taking
action. If you didn’t act, it became obvious that you
were not moving forward, that no real change was
happening.
It is easy to slip into denial and get bogged down.
We need to be aware that we have this denial and
this tendency to slack off and make excuses and do
nothing. We need to fight that tendancey with every
bit of strength we have at our disposal.
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The thing I want to emphasize here is that for
anything to work, you absolutely must do it. From
my experience, I have found that you must commit
yourself to actually taking action.
The two-prong method is no exception. When I
first encountered the simple beauty of this method,
I was eager to spring into action. Something held
me back, but I was able to overcome it. I dove head
first into practicing the two-prong method, and the
rewards have been tremendous.
Since I do not lack for money, I had other areas
of my life where I felt less than fulfilled. The method
totally changed my life, and me as in individual.
But again, only because I had the will to begin doing
it. Again, it’s all about taking action.
I feel that right now we have an incredible
opportunity for change, beyond anything we’ve ever
dreamed possible. When we, as a species, reach the
critical mass and Love takes over as the dominant
energy, there are so many things that will be
different. It is beyond the capacity of our
imagination to envision how wonderful Life will be.
Imagine being able to eliminate world starvation
and poverty. We wouldn’t need to have all these
defense forces all over the world; people would be
responsible for their own lives. Armed with the
right worldview, there is really no limit to what we
can do.
Heaven on Earth is possible. But it is possible
only if we take action!
The essence of the Universe is Love. Love is real.
Fear is nothing but illusion. In AA, we say that fear
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is False Evidence Appearing Real. Laziness,
slothfulness and inaction are the product of fear.
Instead, we should choose love. We should choose a
life of action.
I hope my life has been a beacon to illuminate
what is real, and a testament to illustrate what
works. I now feel closer to the goal of the game we
call life: to experience as much Love as possible in
each moment. I feel joy in looking back. I feel
excitement in looking forward. I feel Bliss in Being
Here Now. Most of all, I feel gratitude for having
been given the opportunity to play the game.
Richard Bertram is the founder and past president
of Bertram Yatchs. He gained worldwide fame as
‘the Camel man,’ as the winner of countless boating
competitions... and as a self-made billionaire.
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Getting Started:The Hardest Partof Glad-Giving
by Shannon Wise
Affirmations were easy for me. I was eager to
start. They sounded like fun and I could hardly wait
to get my program underway. Glad-giving, however,
was an entirely different story.
When I first heard about the idea of giving money
away, I was immediately against it. I listened, but I
thought to myself, “No way!” I’ll be polite and hear
what the guy is saying but I will definitely never
consider actually doing it. I’m not a total idiot you
know!
For me, starting glad-giving was unbelievably
hard. It was so hard, in fact, that I can honestly say
it was one of the most difficult things I ever did in
my whole life. But I’m here to tell you that if I can
do it, anyone can do it.
At the time, I was working as a disk-jockey at a
local nightclub. In my line of work, you don’t make
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a lot of money and what you do make is somewhat
unreliable. So the idea of giving away a percentage
of my income was extremely unattractive to me. But
I really did want to start. In fact, I started saving
ads I got in the mail for charitable organizations,
just in case I ever got around to doing this. I started
getting eager to send some money to some of them.
I actually wanted to donate, and I knew I would
need to do it or I would never be content, but I just
couldn’t bring myself to start.
Finally, one day, I decided to have a different
mental attitude. I decided that I would be a fool. I
decided that glad-giving was stupid, but I would go
ahead and do an idiotic thing anyway. Sometimes I
do other idiotic things in my life and so, what the
hell, I’ll just be an idiot one more time.
That did the trick. For me personally, I found it
much easier to begin with an attitude of ‘don’t give
a damn’ and just be a fool anyway. The amazing
thing is that once I got past those first few dona-
tions, it got totally easy. Now, I love it!
The way I see it, as far as glad-giving is
concerned, getting started is the whole thing. If you
can get started, you got it. The rest is easy. The
calculating how much to give and deciding who to
give to is no big deal. The only part of this entire
process that amounts to anything is getting started.
Making your first donation is the name of the game.
I don’t blame anyone if they don’t want to do
glad-giving. I can understand what they feel. Lots
of people, I’m sure, realize that it would be a good
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thing and it would be neat to donate to worthwhile
causes, but they just find it unbearable to ever get
started. One point to make about this is that the
amount is really very small. Only one percent of
my income is basically insignificant. And if I decide
to be crazy and do a crazy thing by doing glad-giving,
losing a mere one percent of my net income is really
not all that crazy anyway. The truth is, I’m a lot
better off now than that one percent could ever
make me.
I’m not saying my approach will work for you.
Everybody is different. You may find some other
mental trick or way to get yourself to start. But I
will say this, whatever you have to do to get yourself
to begin, do it. Do whatever it takes. Once you get
past that initial rough part, you will be thrilled. It’s
hard to imagine much else in life that is more
rewarding than donating your money to help others.
The fact that it’s so hard to do (at first) is part of
the reason why it’s so incredibly rewarding once
you get going.
I know now why many people never do glad-
giving. I almost didn’t. It’s because it is practically
impossible to start doing. But once you do, you’ll
be very pleased, I’m sure. The whole thing, in a
nutshell, is getting started.
A word about how things are going for me today.
My situation is totally different from what it was
when I first started glad-giving. I am still a dj, but
these days I do it just because I love it. It really is a
blast, and I really do love it, but I don’t need to do it
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for income anymore, out of a sense of desperateness
like I used to.
By the way, I have since decided to be even more
of a fool than I once was. I now give anywhere from
two to four percent of my income away every two
weeks. I know, I’m an idiot. But I’m a happy idiot!
Ecstatic idiot, would be more accurate.
Actually, on second thought, I now believe I’m
no longer any kind of idiot at all. I’ve done the
smartest thing possible I could ever do. It’s called
the two-prong method, affirmations and glad-giving.
The proof is in the pudding, as they say. And
I’ve got lots of pudding, if you know what I mean.
Shannon Wise now owns and operates a thriving
computer-networking company, with an abundance
of clients up and down the west coast. And he still
deejays every weekend; he can be found at the top
nightspots throughout the greater San Diego area.
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I deal in hype every day. I am a book agent
working for a major company in New York. Believe
me, hype is everywhere in my world.
Yet I found myself susceptible to the hype, of a
sort, surrounding the two-prong method and plans
like it. The hype is that you can get rich, and it will
be easy, easy, easy. You don’t need to do squat, and
riches will just fall in your lap. Nothing is required
on your part. That’s the implicit promise. That’s
the hype.
Don’t believe it.
While this particular plan, the two-prong
method, is technically simple to perform, and the
results are satisfactory, it still requires some action
on your part. You can not just sit around all day
doing nothing and expect money to fall from heaven
into your lap. No, it doesn’t work that way.
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I had just finished reading the book How to Solve
All Your Money Problems Forever. I don’t know what
I was thinking, but I guess I figured I would just
read the book, and then that would be all that was
required of me to strike it rich. I figured I was
informed now of how my subconscious works and
how glad-giving reduces my addition to money, etc.,
so all I need to do now was kick back and enjoy the
good life. In short, I believed the hype.
Don’t. Hype is just that, hype. Unrealistic ex-
pectation, left like residue from strong marketing.
In today’s society, marketing is everything. And
these days, everything is either free, or easy, or both.
Nobody wants to do anything. Everybody wants
something for nothing, the easy way. It is under-
standable that people feel this way. That is the
central message of most marketing these days. Thus
the word: hype.
In the case of the two-prong method: it is a God-
send! It is, without question, the most worthwhile
thing you could be doing to better your financial
situation in every way. But make no mistake, it is
not a something-for-nothing proposition. You must
do something.
True, the something you need to do is simple
and easy in and of itself. (Affirmations and glad-
giving.) But it is still something that needs doing.
You cannot just loaf around and do nothing.
I am not saying that Victor Boc is inaccurate in
marketing his book. Not at all. His statements do
tell the truth in describing this process. Doing this
method is easy. And it is virtually impossible to
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exaggerate the claims regarding the result you will
see. Nonetheless, surely some people will interpret
this to mean that they don’t need to do anything at
all. Some people will undoubtedly supply their own
hype, even if there is none there to begin with.
The idea that you don’t need to do anything is
incorrect. You must write and say affirmations, and
you must practice glad-giving. That is not nothing.
In fact, getting started can be a tough hurdle. It
wasn’t for me personally, but I have heard from
others that it is for them. If you approach the
starting point with an expectation that you don’t
need to do anything, you will probably fail to jump
the hurdle and start. That would be sad.
I encourage you to go into your practice of the
two-prong method with your eyes open. Yes, you
must do something, easy though it is. And yes the
results are inevitable, based on irrefutable laws.
And that’s it. That is the truth about this propo-
sition, what is required and what you can expect.
Anything else is just hype. The best thing to do
when you encounter hype, is disregard it. Treat it
like the nonsense it is. And then proceed.
Jennifer Ward is a highly successful book agent,
working at a prestigious agency in New York City.
She is also a graduate of Harvard and a wiz at
playing the stock market.
Don’t Believe the Hype